How to use Elasticsearch to Create an Exceptional User Experience in Retail

You just went to Google. What do you see?

You saw a search box inviting you to type something. Well I’m a programmer, so I’ll just go ahead and type in the word recursion.

Haha. A recursion joke. You’re funny, Google. But jokes aside, let’s look at the top 5 results:

It probably took less than a second for Google to return documents from the web about recursion neatly ordered by relevance.

If you’re reading this on your phone or laptop right now, you’ve likely heard of the term search engine. A search engine is a software component that allows you to find information in a computer. It usually consists of an interface that lets you enter a search query where you specify criteria about an item of interest. This could be in the form of words…